Chapter 859: Red in the Heart of Man (Third Update)
Shrouded in blood mist, Chen Ge could only vaguely see the outline of a playground, and the scene in front of him slowly overlapped with the back playground of Dusk Middle School in his memory.
"The well is over there." The old principal took good care of Chen Ge, he seemed to be worried that Chen Ge would have an accident, so he kept Chen Ge behind him and walked in front by himself.
Across the playground, under the leadership of the old principal, Chen Ge finally found the abandoned dry well.
As soon as he got closer, he heard all kinds of cries coming from the well, men, women, and children, and it was very terrible to hear.
"Is the exit at the bottom of the well?" The fog was filled, and Chen Ge couldn't see what was at the bottom of the well even if he had a yin pupil.
"Yes."
"That's where you got into the ghost school?" When Chen Ge stood by the well, Xu Yin stopped him, as if the well made him feel uneasy.
"Yes, the blood mist at the bottom of the well is very thick, almost turning into substance, which may also be the key to the dry well being able to avoid the school's will." The old headmaster motioned to Chen Ge not to stand by the well for a long time, so as not to attract the attention of the school's will: "Go down to the bottom of the well, there is only one road inside, walk in that direction, after about three to fifteen minutes, you can leave the ghost school and enter the underground of that blood-red city, and then we can find the way to the ground." ”
The whole process sounds simple, but there are many aspects of it that don't stand up to scrutiny.
Chen Ge held the edge of the well with both hands and looked back at the old principal: "After entering the bottom of the well, it will take three to fifteen minutes to walk before leaving the ghost school?" Why is there such a difference in time? If the distance is the same, even if the speed is slowed down, it is impossible to make such a big error! ”
"I can't tell, it's the same road every time, but sometimes it takes a long time, sometimes it takes a short time, do you want to go down and have a look first?" The old headmaster didn't figure it out himself.
If someone else said this to Chen Ge, not only would Chen Ge not go down, but he would even suspect that the other party was deliberately trying to harm him, and then throw the other party down to explore the way, but the old principal was different, he trusted this old man very much.
"With this back road, I am invincible, and I can also rest assured to do something boldly, but the premise is that this road is clear, not a dead end."
Chen Ge thought for a long time, and asked Xu Yin's opinion again, and after getting Xu Yin's consent, he decided to go down with the old principal to have a look.
"I went down alone before, there was no reference, this time there are a lot of us, and we are accompanied by red, there should be no problem." In order to reassure Chen Ge, the old principal was the first to walk to the well, and when he was about to jump, Chen Ge stopped him again.
"Wait." Chen Ge took out some ropes from Lin Sisi's backpack, which he used to rest when he climbed over the wall on the West Campus: "Tie them around your waist to prevent them from getting separated." ”
"Why do you have everything?" The old headmaster was not as surprised as he had been.
"How deep is this well? Is two ropes enough? ”
"Almost." The old headmaster held the wall of the well with both hands, black and red flowers appeared on his coat, and his eyes were slowly occupied by blood.
Seeing the changes in the old principal's body, Chen Ge realized that the half-body red clothes in front of him were different from the other half-body red clothes he had encountered.
The old headmaster gave him a very strange feeling, he couldn't say it, he and the old headmaster stood together, they didn't treat each other as a ghost at all, they felt that the other party was a living person.
"Even if it is red, this situation has not appeared, is it because the old principal has done too many good things in his lifetime, even if he has become a ghost, there is no trace of evil and violent aura on his body?"
Seeing the old principal disappear at the mouth of the well little by little, Chen Ge also hurriedly ran over, and he let Xu Yin be behind the palace and himself in the middle.
As soon as you enter the dry well, a thick blood mist will come to your face, the fog in the dry well is much thicker than the outside, this well doesn't know what the reason is, it seems to be actively absorbing the blood mist full of negative emotions, causing a large amount of blood mist to be deposited here.
Entering it is like falling into a pool of blood.
The clothes were attached to his body, and Chen Ge felt a tingling pain on his skin, as if he had been bitten with his teeth, but he used his pupils to see that there was nothing on his skin.
"Xu Yin did not give warning, that is, it is safe for the time being, and everything is under control."
The surroundings were completely shrouded in blood mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly, if it weren't for Xu Yin guarding his side, Chen Ge wouldn't go down for anything.
"Haven't you finished yet?" The well was much deeper than he had imagined, and it was no wonder that the Ghost School Mind was not aware of this loophole.
The further down he went, the more depressed he became, Chen Ge was very worried that the old principal would have an accident, he was afraid that when he went down, it was not the old principal who was tied to the other end of the rope.
The rope was no longer tight, and the figure of the old headmaster slowly emerged from the well.
Before he reached the bottom of the well, the old headmaster stopped.
"Why don't you go any further?" Chen Ge was a little puzzled, he felt that the old principal's state was not quite right.
"I can't go down...... old headmaster's voice trembled.
Chen Ge moved his body and approached the old principal, he followed the principal's line of sight and moved down, and cold sweat broke out.
The old principal's feet were no longer blood-red mist, but blood-red water, and what was even more terrifying was that there were human faces crowded under the water!
As the blood mist converged, the water surface in the abandoned well was still rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, and those monsters hiding under the water opened their mouths wide, as if they couldn't wait to rush out and bite Chen Ge.
"The last time I came in, I didn't have these monsters......" The old headmaster was a little anxious.
"It's fine."
Chen Ge would say that it was fine, simply because Xu Yin did not react at all: "I have seen them in the mirror school built by the painter, they have no skin, they are covered in blood, and they emit a pungent stench. ”
These monsters were no different from the ones Chen Ge had seen before, the only difference was that they were no longer walking upside down.
"How the hell did these monsters come to be? Did they come from the Scarlet City just outside the school, or was this well where they were born? ”
"If the monsters come from the Scarlet City outside the school, then why do I see them in the Painter's Mirror School? And they're all upside down? Could it be that these monsters were raised by painters? Now there is a change in the school, is it also because of him? ”
Chen Ge felt that he was one step closer to the core secret, and he gently pulled the rope: "Headmaster, let's go back first." ”
"I think I've seen them somewhere." The old headmaster stared at the monster in the well: "They are absorbing blood mist, these guys feed on the negative emotions in people's hearts, I have heard people say it before!" But...... No, how did they end up in this well? Why is there so much negativity here? ”
"Feeding on the negativity in people's hearts? Appearing in the well? Chen Ge vaguely realized something, and he remembered a reminder from the black phone about Twilight Middle School - everyone has an unfathomable well in their hearts, and there are unspeakable memories buried in it.